IBC Falluja Archive - Extracted Data Only
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| IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 05 | ||||||
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| News Source - Author - Title |
Date killed? | Total | Civilian / Fighter | Date range? | Total | Civilian / Fighter |
| REU - Michael Georgy - VIOLENCE ERUPTS ACROSS IRAQ |
4th (overnight) | 5 (3 wounded) | ||||
| AP - 05:48 PDT - BASSEM MROUE - U.S. FORCES SEAL OFF FALLUJAH AHEAD OF MAJOR OPERATION |
5th (morning) | 5 | ||||
| Aljaz - 15:35 Makka Time, 12:35 GMT - IRAQIS KILLED IN US APACHE AIR STRIKE |
5th (4:00-5:30 AM) |
6 | ||||
| NCT - 12:43 PM PDT - DARRIN MORTENSON - U.S. TAKES CASUALTIES AS MAJOR OPERATION BEGINS IN FALLUJAH |
5th (early AM) |
12+ (possible) | 0/12 | |||
| IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 06 | ||||||
| News Source - Author - Title |
Date killed? | Total | Civilian / Fighter | Date range? | Total | Civilian / Fighter |
| AP - HAMZA HENDAWI - 64 IRAQIS DIE IN BATTLE WITH U.S. FORCES |
6th and late 6th | 8 + 26 (in four houses) =34 (20 + 30 wounded) |
'including women and children' in both cases |
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| AP - BASSEM MROUE - FIGHTING HEARD AS U.S. AND IRAQI FORCES SURROUND FALLUJAH; AMERICAN DEATH TOLL CLIMBS |
5th (morning) | 5 | ||||
| Aljaz - 16:46 Makka Time, 13:46 GMT - FIGHTING RESUMES IN FALLUJA |
6th (AM) | 1 | 1/0 |
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| KR - 13 U.S. MARINES KILLED AS FIGHTING SPREADS IN IRAQ |
6th | 4 | ||||
| AP - 4:59 PM EDT - 26 IRAQIS DIE IN U.S. STRIKE ON FALLUJAH |
6th (26 in evening and 8 in daytime) | 26 (likely in the houses) + 8 (during earlier street fighting) =34 (? + 30 wounded) |
(of the 26) 'including women and children'; 'their wounds suggested they had been in the destroyed houses' |
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| REU - 21:47 (UK) - Ghaith Abdul-Ahad - BATTLES FLARE AS SHI'ITES VOW RESISTANCE |
6th | 2 'at least' (7 wounded) |
2/0 'including a teenage girl' |
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| AP - 08:35 PDT - BASSEM MROUE - U.S. BATTLE GUERRILLAS AROUND FALLUJAH AHEAD OF OPERATION TO PACIFY CITY |
5th | 6 | [US military said] 'all were guerrillas, though residents said five of them were killed when helicopters hit a residential area' |
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| IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 07 | ||||||
| News Source - Author - Title |
Date killed? | Total | Civilian / Fighter | Date range? | Total | Civilian / Fighter |
| Aljaz - 10:51 Makka Time, 7:51 GMT - SCORES DEAD AS FALLUJA RESISTS US ONSLAUGHT |
Night of 6th-7th: 53; 7th: 45 |
45 (incl family in car outside mosque) + 53 (overnight attacks) =98 |
25 from one family (night of 6th-7th); unspecified number from another family in car outside mosque, (7th); |
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| BNA - FALLUJAH STATISTICS INDICATE 40 DEAD |
7th | 40 | 'including women in children' | [102 injured] | ||
| FBIS - Al-Jazirah Satellite Channel Television in Arabic 0505 GMT - AL-JAZIRAH CORRESPONDENT REPORTS 'HORRIFIC' SITUATION IN AL-FALLUJAH |
6th | 35 (60 wounded) |
'some 24' from one family, 'including women and children' | 4th-6th? | 35? | |
| FBIS - Baghdad: Dar al-Salam Radio in Arabic 1000 GMT - IRAQI DOCTOR PROVIDES FIGURES ON DEAD, WOUNDED IN AL-FALLUJAH |
4th-6th | 54 [103 wounded] |
'many of whom are women and children' | |||
| PBS - Gwen Ifill discusses the latest flashpoints with Los Angeles Times reporter Tony Perry, who is embedded with U.S. Marines in Fallujah. - DEADLY DAY |
7th | 1 (seven-yr-old girl) | 1/0 | |||
| MEO - Ned Parker - AN UNEXPECTED REVOLT |
late 6th - 7th | 46 (40 in mosque: US military figure, later retracted - see PBS above) |
"mostly women and children" | up to 6th? | 24? | |
| MEO - Last Updated 2004-04-07 12:40:04 - SHIITES AND SUNNIS ARE RESISTING US-LED COALITION FORCES |
6th-7th | 30 (from US tank-fire) | ||||
| FBIS - Baghdad: Dar al-Salam Radio in Arabic 1600 GMT - IRAQI ISLAMIC PARTY STATEMENT WARNS AGAINST 'BLOODSHED, COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT' |
4th-7th? | 100+ [200+ wounded] |
'mostly women and children' | |||
| AP - 8:18 AM EDT - LOURDES NAVARRO and BASSEM MROUE - U.S. FACES TOUGH URBAN BATTLE IN FALLUJAH |
6th | 26 (evening) + 8=34 | 26 included 'women and children' | |||
WP |
5th | 10 | 0/10 | |||
| AP - ROCKETS KILL DOZENS IN IRAQI MOSQUE, WITNESSES SAY |
night of 6th-7th, 7th | 60+40=100 | of 26 in four houses 16 were children, 8 women | 4th-night of 6th, possibly 7th prior to bombing of mosque | 150+, |
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| AP - 3:01 PM (UK) - 40 REPORTED KILLED IN FALLUJAH MOSQUE |
40 | |||||
| LAT - Tony Perry - FALLOUJA NEIGHBORHOOD SUDDENLY TURNS FIERCE |
6th? | 50 | 0/50 | |||
| Times - COALITION VOWS TO CRUSH SHIA MILITIA BUT VIOLENCE CONTINUES |
night of 6th-7th | 60 | ||||
| IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 08 | ||||||
| News Source - Author - Title |
Date killed? | Total | Civilian / Fighter | Date range? | Total | Civilian / Fighter |
| KUNA - AROUND 275 IRAQI CITIZENS KILLED IN FALLUJA CONFRONTATIONS |
5th-8th | 275 | ||||
| GUA - Rory McCarthy - 'WE WILL FIGHT UNTIL THE END, UNTIL EACH ONE OF THEM DIES |
7th (20) 6th (25-40) | 'at least' 25 ('other reports said as many as 40') + 20 (Tuesday, in one large house) =45-60 (20 + 4 injured) |
'Among the dead [of the 20] were several women and children' |
5th-7th (inclusive) | 'at least' 60 (100 injured) |
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| AFP - Ned Parker - CORPSES LITTER STREETS IN FALLUJAH |
6th-8th | 1 | 0/1 |
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| Aljaz - 22:48 Makka Time, 19:48 GMT - PLEA TO LIFT SIEGE AS TOLL MOUNTS |
7th | ? | 'a family in a car outside of the mosque were killed in the attack' | 280 (400 injured) |
'Many children have been killed' | |
| REU - 04:16 AM ET - Alistair Lyon - FRESH FIGHTING HITS SHI'ITE SHRINE CITY IN IRAQ |
8th | 3 [15 wounded] |
3/0 | 5th-8th | 60 (one emergency clinic) |
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| REU - 18:54 (UK) - Alistair Lyon - FIERCE FIGHTING RAGES IN IRAQ |
5th-8th | 'up to' 300 | ||||
| AP - 8:46 AM (UK) - BASSEM MROUE and ABDUL-QADER SAADI - HOSPITAL CHIEF: OVER 280 IRAQIS KILLED |
7th | 40 (est.) +1 | 40 est. 'gathered for afternooon prayers' - Iraqi witnesses Also 0/1 'One anti-coalition force member was killed in the attack' -US military (possibly at second mosque) |
5th-8th | 280+ (400 wounded) |
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| SMH - 1:21AM (AUS.) - Paul Mcgeough - 40 DEAD AS US BOMBS MOSQUE |
7th | 41 | (40 'insurgents' later retracted) | |||
| REU - 09:26 (UK) - Andrew Marshall - U.S. MAY BEEF UP IRAQ TROOP LEVELS |
7th | 25 | ||||
| AFP - 3:11 AM ET - US BATTLE TWO-PRONGED OFFENSIVE AGAINST SUNNI, SHIITE REBELS |
7th? | 1 (Iraqi girl) | 1/0 | |||
| NYT - CHRISTINE HAUSER - IRAQ UPRISING SPREADS; RUMSFELD SEES IT AS 'TEST OF WILL' |
7th | 36? (est.) | ||||
| IND - Patrick Cockburn - A GUIDED MISSILE, A MISGUIDED WAR |
7th (mosque), 6th | 40 (7th) +16 children +8 women (6th)=64 | 64 (40 'worshippers'' + 24 women and children) | 5th-8th? | 150? | |
| REU - Akram Saleh - FIERCE FIGHTING SWEEPS IRAQI CITIES, SHI'ITE AREAS |
7th, 6th | 25 (7th) +'at least' 36 (6th)=61 | ||||
| Aljaz - 9:58 Makka Time, 6:58 GMT - IRAQIS MARCH TO FALLUJA CARRYING AID |
7th? | ? | 20/0? | |||
| SMH - 8:39PM (AUS.) - SHI'ITE MILITIA CONTROL PARTS OF 3 IRAQI CITIES |
7th | 40 | 5th-8th | 280 | ||
| AP - Bassem Mroue - MOSQUE HIT IN FALLUJAH |
night of 6th & daytime 7th | 16 (children) + 8 (women) 40 (mosque) = 64 | 24 women & children | |||
| IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 09 | ||||||
| News Source - Author - Title |
Date killed? | Total | Civilian / Fighter | Date range? | Total | Civilian / Fighter |
| G&M - 1:07 PM EDT - U.S. AIRCRAFT ATTACK FALLUJAH |
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4th-9th? | 280 | |||
| AFP - US RESUMES FALLUJAH ASSAULT AFTER BRIEF STOP |
5th-9th? | 300+ [500 wounded] | ||||
| GR - VOICES OF CONSCIENCE: END THE MASSACRE IN FALLUJA! |
5th-9th | 470 | (37% of injured are women and children) | |||
| Aljaz - 15:12 Makka Time, 12:12 GMT - US ATTACK BELIES BREMER'S FALLUJA 'TRUCE' |
8th (PM) | 2 | 5th-9th | 300+ [500+ wounded] |
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| AljazTV - QATAR: AL-JAZIRAH SATELLITE CHANNEL TELEVISION IN ARABIC |
5th-9th? | 100+ | ||||
| Aljaz - 20:48 Makka Time, 17:48 GMT - DOCTOR REVEALS FALLUJA'S HORROR TOLL |
4th-9th? | 'at least' 450 [1000+ wounded -via REU] ; 400+ [1000+ wounded -via AFP] | ||||
| AP - LOURDES NAVARRO and ABDUL-QADER SAADI - REFUGEES EXIT FALLUJAH AFTER BURYING DEAD |
5th-9th | 280+ | ||||
Aljaz |
8th | 10 +1=11 | 0/11 | 6th (PM)-9th? (AM) | 105 | |
| News24 - 21:14 (SA) - DEAD BURIED IN SOCCER STADIUM |
5th-9th | 200? | ||||
| IND - Robert Fisk - THE WAR'S ONE SIMPLE TRUTH: IRAQIS DO NOT WANT US |
5th-8th | 200 | ||||
| IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 10 | ||||||
| News Source - Author - Title |
Date killed? | Total | Civilian / Fighter | Date range? | Total | Civilian / Fighter |
| GUA - Rory McCarthy - 'WE HAVE TO FIGHT TO A SAFE HAVEN - BUT THEY ARE ALL UNDER ATTACK' |
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5th-9th | 450 | |||
| REU - CLASHES ERUPT IN BAGHDAD, U.S. OFFERS FALLUJA TRUCE |
5th-9th | 450 (approx.) | ||||
| AFP - 1956 hrs Time is GMT + 8 hours - US SOLDIERS MAINTAIN SECURITY POSITIONS IN SOUTHEASTERN FALLUJAH |
5th-9th | 400 [1000 injured] |
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| WP - Pamela Constable - FALLUJAH FIGHTING HALTS BRIEFLY FOR EVACUATION, AID CONVOY |
5th-9th | 450 | 450/0? | |||
| REU - 17:31 (UK) - IRAQI CHILDREN LIE WOUNDED IN FALLUJA CLINIC |
5th-9th, ambulance driver possibly 7th (day of attack on Abdulaziz mosque) | 1 (new born baby) + 1 (ambulance driver) =2 [others not numbered - plural of women, children, old men] |
5th-9th | 470 [1200 injured] |
[37% of injured were women and children] | |
| ISP - Andrea Schmidt - WAR WITHOUT END |
5th-10th? | 427 [1200 injured] |
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| KR - Matthew Schofield - IMAGES OF CIVILIAN DEAD, WOUNDED IN FALLUJAH BECOME ANTI-AMERICAN RALLYING POINT |
7th-8th? | 1 | 5th-9th? | 'estimates as high as' 450 [1000+ wounded] |
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| Aljaz - 21:59 Makka Time, 18:59 GMT - CRISIS MEETING TO END BLOODSHED IN FALLUJA |
10th | 1 | 1/0 | 5th-10th | 450+ | including children |
| Aljaz - 18:44 Makka Time, 15:44 GMT - ALJAZEERA UNDER FIRE IN FALLUJA |
5th-10th? | 450 | ||||
| LAT - Alissa J. Rubin - U.S. LOSING SUPPORT OF KEY IRAQIS |
5th-9th? | 200+? | ||||
| IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 11 | ||||||
| News Source - Author - Title |
Date killed? | Total | Civilian / Fighter | Date range? | Total | Civilian / Fighter |
| AP - 9:01 PM (UK) - ABDUL-QADER SAADI - FALLUJAH DEATH TOLL FOR WEEK MORE THAN 600 |
5th-11th | 600+ | 'Most' civilian -IBC's definition of 'most'=60%, so 360+/240+ 'Some headstones bore the names of women; others had markings indicating the dead were children.' 'an unknown number of dead being buried in people's homes' |
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| GN - IRAQI CHILDREN BEING SHOT IN FALLUJAH |
5th-9th? | 1 (new-born baby) | 1/0 | 5th-9th | 470 [1200 injured] |
(37% of injured were women and children) |
| COX - Larry Kaplow - IRAQ BROTHERS SEE FALLUJAH CARNAGE |
before 9th | 12 (incl. 3-yr-old and his schoolteacher father in home next to generator shed) +1 (50-yr-old grandfather) +5 (men assisting 'resistance') =18 |
13/5 (est.) | |||
| AFP - Deborah Pasmantier - FALLUJAH: A GHOST TOWN WHERE SCARED RESIDENTS BURY THEIR DEAD IN THEIR YARDS |
'several' in homes; other plurals used | 400+ [1000 wounded] | ||||
| AP - DANIEL COONEY - TWO DIE WHEN U.S. COPTER DOWNED IN IRAQ |
11th | 11 | 5th-11th | 600+ | 'mostly women, children and elderly' - Rafie al-Issawi, the director of the city hospital 'most of the dead were probably insurgents' - Marine commander |
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| NS - Dahr Jamail - NO END IN SIGHT AS FALLUJAH DEATH TOLL APPROACHES 700 |
11th (or died later) | 2 (woman and small child shot by US sniper) |
2/0 | 5th-11th | 600+ counted | 'most' - (360/240) |
| REU - SHAKY TRUCE HOLDS IN FALLUJAH |
5th-11th | 'hundreds' | ||||
| Aljaz - SHAKY CEASEFIRE UNDERWAY IN FALLUJA |
10th | 1 (75-yr-old man) | 1/0 | 5th-10th | 450+ | |
| REU - IRAQI CHILDREN LIE WOUNDED IN FALLUJA CLINIC |
5th-9th? | 3 (one driver evacuating wounded, 'some' wounded also killed - min. est. of 2) | 3/0 | 5th-11th | 'hundreds' | |
| AP - Hamza Hendawi - FRIENDS OF U.S. POLICY IN IRAQ HAVE DOUBTS |
5th-11th | 600+ | ||||
| REU - 20:04 (UK) - AROUND 600 IRAQIS KILLED IN FALLUJA |
5th-11th | 600+ | ||||
| LAT - Alissa J. Rubin - FALLOUJA RESIDENTS CALL U.S. TACTICS OPPRESSIVE |
5th-11th? | (family of) 25 | ||||
| TIME - Mark Thompson - HOW TO SQUEEZE A CITY |
7th | 40 | 5th-9th | 300 (civilians only) | '300 civilians' according to doctors; 'U.S. says most of the dead are insurgents' (insurgents not included in figure of 300, however) |
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| IO - Sara Korshid - PACIFY FALLUJAH |
9th and earlier | 1 (intrauterine death of baby) + 1 (pharmacist) (Also 'many of the families... entire families' who were fleeing killed: IBC's conservative definition of 'family is '3' but 'many' is undefined - impossible to estimate meaningfully from this, better left to cumulative stats) |
2/0 | |||
| IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 12 | ||||||
| News Source - Author - Title |
Date killed? | Total | Civilian / Fighter | Date range? | Total | Civilian / Fighter |
| IND - Patrick Cockburn - GUERRILLAS GUN DOWN US HELICOPTER BUT CEASEFIRE TAKES HOLD IN BESIEGED FALLUJAH |
11th | 1 (Iraqi sniper) | 0/1 |
5th-9th | 470 | (37% of wounded women and children) |
| AP - 5:16 PM (UK) - ABDUL-QADER SAADI and LOURDES NAVARRO - IRAQI GUNMEN BATTER U.S. SUPPLY LINES |
11th (incl. overnight) | 2 'insurgents setting up a machine gun' +11 'Iraqis seen brought to makeshift clinic at mosque' | 11?/2 | 5th-11th? | approx 600 (300 buried in one of two soccer fields) | 'mostly civilians' -hospital director / 'confident' troops in his regiment 'had not killed any civilans' -US commander |
REU |
5th-11th | 600+ | ||||
| AP - 10:46 PM (UK) - LEE KEATH - SHIITE CLERIC PULLS BACK IRAQI MILITIAS |
11th? | 2 'gunmen setting up a machine gun' + 1 'insurgent in the ambulance' + 24 ('dozens'... who left their homes for supplies') | 24 ('dozens') /3 |
5th-11th? | 600+ | 'mostly women, children and the elderly' |
| AP - HAMZA HENDAWI - MANY KILLED ON BOTH SIDES SO FAR IN APRIL |
5th-11th | 600+ | 'mostly civilians' | |||
| TN - Dahr Jamail - SARAJEVO ON THE EUPHRATES |
11th? | 1 | 5th-12th? | 600+ | 'most of them civlians' | |
| PAC - Aaron Glantz - MORE THAN 600 KILLED IN FALLUJAH |
(3 in house) before 9th | 1 (Ahmed, 11 or under) + 3 = 4 | 4/0 | 5th-12th? | 600+ ['thousands' injured] |
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| EI - Dahr Jamail - AMERICANS SLAUGHTERING CIVILIANS IN FALLUJA |
before 12th | 1 (baby) + 1 (old man)=2 | 2/0 | 5th-12th? | 600+ | |
| REU - 08:24AM (SA) - Fadel Badran - VIOLENCE RAGES ON IN FALLUJAH DESPITE TRUCE |
5th-12th? | 600+ | ||||
| TEL - Jack Fairweather talks to families who fled the fighting in Fallujah - 'THERE WERE BODIES BY THE ROAD BUT NO ONE STOPPED. WE JUST WANTED TO GET OUT OF THAT HELLISH PLACE' |
9th; pre-10th | 9 (on rooftop, shot by Apache) + 1 (neighbour of Mohammed Hadi) +25 (mourners at cemetery) +2 (friends of Hassan Monem, 17) =37 (+ others unconfirmed dead, eg. husband of Turka Hasim, 30 of her neighbours) |
28 (min) 37 (max) civilian (9 on rooftop undefined) | |||
| Aljaz - 15:13 Makka Time, 12:13 GMT - HIGHWAY TO HELL: THE ROAD TO FALLUJA |
before 12th | 5th-12th | 600+ ['at least' 1000 wounded] |
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| UPI - P. Mitchell Prothero - FALLUJAH RESISTANCE VOWS TO CONTINUE FIGHT |
3 (IBC def. of 'family', shot by snipers as they attempted to escape fighting) +2 (companions of fighter 'Abu Freedom') =5 |
3/2 ('Army of Mohammed' members) |
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| GUA - Jonathan Steele - 'SHELLS AND ROCKETS WERE FALLING LIKE RAIN' |
9th | 1 (man forced to return to Falluja) | 1/0 | |||
| FBIS - Dubai: Al-Arabiyah Television in Arabic 0600 GMT - AL-ARABIYAH REPORTS ON CURRENT SITUATION IN AL-FALLUJAH |
11th-12th | 12 (incl. man who was shot by snipers while obtaining provisions for his family) | 1 (min) 12 (max) civiians | 5th-12th | 600 | |
| AFP - Karim Saheb - IRAQI FAMILIES LIVE ROUGH AROUND BESIEGED CITY OF FALLUJAH |
5th-12th | 600 [1250 wounded] |
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| 5th-12th | 600+ (300 buried in one football field, unknown number in another) |
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| BBC - 16:02:03 GMT - SCALE OF FALLUJA VIOLENCE EMERGES |
5th-9th (11th) | 470 - 600 | ||||
| IO - Ahmad Maher - MOST OF FALLUJAH VICTIMS WOMEN, CHILDREN: REPORT |
before 9th? | ? (buses hit) | 5th-11th | 600 | ||
| GUA - Rory McCarthy in Baghdad and Julian Borger in Washington - DEFIANT US SAYS FALLUJA DEAD WERE REBELS |
5th-11th | 600+ | 'vast majority of the dead were women, children and the elderly' -hospital director |
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| EN - Rahul Mahajan - REPORT FROM FALLUJAH -- DESTROYING A TOWN IN ORDER TO "SAVE" IT |
5th-12th | 600+ | with an estimated 200 women and over 100 children' | |||
| LAT - 3:37 PM PDT - Nicholas Riccardi and Tony Perry - CEASE-FIRE NOT 100% BUT HOLDING, U.S. SAYS |
11th | 4 | (late) 4th-11th? | 600+ | ||
| IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 13 | ||||||
| News Source - Author - Title |
Date killed? | Total | Civilian / Fighter | Date range? | Total | Civilian / Fighter |
| AFP - 300 WOMEN, CHILDREN AMONG FALLUJAH DEAD |
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5th-9th | 600+ [1250 wounded] |
301 women and children, + 'many elderly' |
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| IND - Patrick Cockburn - 'DO WE LOOK LIKE FIGHTERS?' ASK FALLUJAH FAMILIES WITH THEIR DISABLED, THEIR OLD AND THEIR CHILDREN |
before 13th | 1 | 1/0 |
5th-9th | 600+ [1200 wounded] |
'About 350 were women and children' |
| FBIS - Quds Press (Internet Version-WWW) in Arabic 0609 GMT - 'IRAQI RESISTANCE' DEMANDS US SNIPERS WITHDRAW FROM FALLUJAH BY 2200, 13 APRIL |
12th | 15 | ||||
| REU - 17:35 (UK) - Alistair Lyon - ISLAMIST KIDNAPPERS TELL ITALY TO QUIT IRAQ |
5th-13th | 625+ | ||||
| DN - "FEAR IS TRANSMUTING INTO ANGER" - RAHUL MAHAJAN REPORTS ON RESISTANCE IN IRAQ |
12th (or after) | 1 (woman 'quite certain to die') | 5th-13th? | 'some' 600 | 'at least' half women and children; majority of total were non-combatants | |
| JW - APRIL 11TH - FALLUJA |
11th-after 12th? | 2 ('children are not going to live') +1 ('He'll die of dehydration within a few days') +2 (brother and aunt of doctor) +1 (55-yr-old man) =6 | ||||
| PAC - US MARINES SHOOT AMBULANCES IN FALLUJAH |
before 12th | 1 | 1/0 | 5th-12th? | 600 (total number 'likely much higher') |
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| AP - 3:13 p.m. ET - JASON KEYSER - SOME TROOPS EXPECT ALL-OUT FALLUJAH FIGHT |
12th | 1 + 9 | 0/9 | |||
| IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 14 | ||||||
| News Source - Author - Title |
Date killed? | Total | Civilian / Fighter | Date range? | Total | Civilian / Fighter |
AFSC |
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5th-12th | 518 | 'including 157 women and 146 children' |
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| NAT - THE 'CEASEFIRE' IN FALLUJAH - Dahr Jamail |
10th (or earlier) | 1 '55-year-old man shot in the back by a sniper outside his home' | 1/0 | 5th-14th? | 600+ | |
NS |
'recently' pre-14th | 2 | 2 - 'a 9 year-old boy and his 16 year-old sister' | |||
| KR - ROBERT MORAN - REFUGEES FROM FALLUJAH SAY U.S. ATTACKS FUELING ILL-WILL AMONG IRAQIS |
1 during 6th-11th? | 1 'Mahmood's... nephew' + 1 'Sajeen's mother' (possibly from lack of medical care) 0 (min) 2 (max) |
1 (Min) 2 (Max) | |||
| AFP - Deborah Pasmantier - BAGHDAD'S MUSLIMS RUSH AID FOR FALLUJAH RESIDENTS |
5th-11th | 600+ [1250 wounded] | ||||
AFP |
13th | 9 [38 wounded] |
'wounded include three women and four children' | 600+ [1250 wounded] | 'Among those killed were 160 women, 141 children and many elderly' | |
| Aljaz - 14:19 Makka Time, 11:19 GMT - FALLUJA CEASEFIRE BROKEN |
13th | 5 | 0/5 | 5th-13th | 700+ [1200 injured] |
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| IRIN - Beth Potter - IRAQ: BAGHDAD HOSPITAL TREATING INJURED FROM FALLUJAH |
5th-13th | 500-700 |
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| CSM - Christina Asquith - REFUGEES TELL OF RISING ANGER IN FALLUJAH |
before 13th | 19 (in house)+ 1 (5-yr-old by sniper) +1 (old man by helicopter); 9 (on roof by helicopter) =29 |
[at least 2] | 5th-13th? | 600 | 'The victims include hundreds of women and children' |
| INDY (UK) - Lee Gordon (Transcription of Lee's radio interview with Mindy Ran) - NO CEASEFIRE IN FALLUJA |
9th | 1 (28-yr-old male nurse) | 1/0 | |||
| NYT - Jeffrey Gettleman - MARINES IN FALLUJA STILL FACE AND RETURN RELENTLESS FIRE |
10th, 11th | 12+1 [presumed killed] |
0/13 | |||
| AFP - FALLUJAH GETS ANOTHER 48 HOURS OF PEACE |
13th | 9 | 5th-13th | 600+ [1250 wounded] |
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| NYT - Christine Hauser - WAR REPORTS FROM CIVILIANS STIR UP IRAQIS AGAINST U.S. |
12th or earlier (parents of Haider Abdel-Wahab) 12th (his two brothers), and possibly earlier; 10th and prior (Jo Wilding's account) |
2 (parents) + 2 (brothers) + 2 (children) + 1 (elderly man) + 1 (gunman)=7 | 6/1 | |||
| Ekklesias - CHRISTIAN PEACEMAKERS REPORT KILLINGS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN BY US TROOPS IN FALLUJAH |
5th-11th ['by Sunday'] |
518 [1200+ wounded] |
[at least] 303 civilian (157 women + 146 children) | |||
| MEO - Last Updated 2004-04-14 14:28:04 - FOUR DEAD IN IRAQ MORTAR ATTACK IN CROWDED MARKET IN MOSUL, FIVE KILLED IN FALLUJAH DESPITE DECLARED CEASEFIRE. |
13th-14th (overnight) | 5 | ||||
| AP - INTENSE BATTLES CONTINUE IN FALLUJAH |
5th-13th? | 600 | 'mostly civilians' | |||
| AI - Iraq: Civilians continue to pay the price |
'at least' 600 | 'half' civilian | ||||
| Balt. Sun - Mark Matthews - LIKENING IRAQ, VIETNAM 'FALSE,' PRESIDENT SAYS |
5th-14th | 800+ | ||||
| IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 15 | ||||||
| News Source - Author - Title |
Date killed? | Total | Civilian / Fighter | Date range? | Total | Civilian / Fighter |
AP |
prior to 15th | 1 | 0/1 |
5th-15th? | 600+ | |
| AT - Pepe Escobar - WANTED: A NEW SADDAM |
5th-11th? | 1 (8-mnth-old baby) | 1/0 | 5th-11th? ('last week') | 'at least' 600 | 'about 350 out of the 600' |
| JP - FOUR KILLED AS RI'S MER-C AMBULANCE HIT BY U.S. MISSILE |
9th, noon | 4 (three patients and driver of ambulance) | 4/0 | |||
| AFP - Salah Jali - A CITY WITH MORE FIGHTERS THAN WEAPONS |
5th-15th? | 600+ [1250 wounded] |
'over half the dead are women and children' | |||
| MEO - Ned Parker - BOMBS ARE RESPONSIBLE MORE THAN ANY OTHER WEAPON FOR DEATHS OF US SOLDIERS |
13th-15th | 1 | ||||
| MEO - Salah Jali - FALLUJAH'S WOMEN; SPINE OF STEADFASTNESS |
5th-15th? | 600 [1250 wounded] |
'half were women and children' | |||
| AFP - US TROOPS IN IRAQ TO STAY ON, FALLUJAH TRUCE COMES UNGLUED, HOSTAGE-TAKING CONTINUES |
14th or 15th | 5 | ||||
| IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 16 | ||||||
| News Source - Author - Title |
Date killed? | Total | Civilian / Fighter | Date range? | Total | Civilian / Fighter |
| 15th-16th (overnight) |
15 [20 wounded] |
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'hundreds' | |||
| Aljaz - 9:43 Makka Time, 6:43 GMT - MORE IRAQIS KILLED IN FALLUJA |
15th-16th (overnight)? | 15 [20 wounded] |
5th-15th? | 125 (in one makehift cemetery; 'hundreds' overall | ||
| BBC - 18:41:41 GMT - TALKS TO RESOLVE FALLUJA STANDOFF |
15th-16th (overnight) | 'at least' 10 | ||||
| FBIS - Qatar: Al-Jazirah Satellite Channel Television in Arabic 0838 GMT 16 Apr 04 - IRAQI MUSLIM ULEMA COUNCIL HOLDS NEWS CONFERENCE ON SITUATION IN AL-FALLUJAH |
pre-15th | 1 (pregnant woman) + 'scores' (still buried under rubble) | 5th-15th? | 298 (only counting women and children) |
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| GA - U.S. COMMAND ATTEMPTS TO ATTRIBUTE IRAQ REBELLION ON FOREIGNERS |
16th? | 2 (tankfire) + 1 (by sniper) =3 | 5th-15th? | 600+ | '600 civilians' | |
| REU - 10:16 (UK) - Fadel Badran - NAJAF STANDOFF FUELS IRAQ TENSION |
15th-16th (overnight) |
15 [20 wounded] |
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| UPI - 8:12:33 EDT - SUNNI CLERICS BLAST U.S. FORCES |
15th-16th (overnight) | 15 | ||||
| IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 17 | ||||||
| News Source - Author - Title |
Date killed? | Total | Civilian / Fighter | Date range? | Total | Civilian / Fighter |
| before 17th | 1 (combatant)+ 1 (hospital volunteer)=2 | 1/1 |
5th-17th? | 600+ [1250 wounded] (over 100 in football pitch) |
'half of them women and children' |
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| AP - Jason Keyser - TROOPS BLAST MUSIC IN SIEGE OF FALLUJAH |
pre-17th | 1 (possible)+3 (in car)=3 (min) 4 (max) | 0/3 (min) to 4 (max) | |||
| LAT - Tony Perry - MARINE CORPS SNIPERS AIM TO STRIKE FEAR |
5th-17th | 24 'confirmed kills' |
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GUA |
10th? | 1 | 880+ (possibly country-wide figure via AP) |
86 children | ||
| IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 18 | ||||||
| News Source - Author - Title |
Date killed? | Total | Civilian / Fighter | Date range? | Total | Civilian / Fighter |
| AP - 8:01 PM (UK) - JASON KEYSER - FALLUJAH IS REALM OF SNIPERS ON BOTH SIDES |
pre-18th | 1 (gunman on roof) +10 (sniper Crane's previous 'kills') +1 (Haqi Ismail on way to prayers) +2 ('16-year-old living near al-Khulafaa, Mohannad Abdel-Rahman' and uncle) = 14 | 3/11 (if all 10 previous 'kills' combatant) | 5th-17th? | 600+ | 'mostly civilians' |
| SH - Jo Wilding - EYEWITNESS IN FALLUJAH |
pre-18th? | 2 (aunt and brother of doctor) +1 (man shot in front of home) | 2 (min) 3 (max) civilians | |||
| INQ - Walden Bello - FALLUJA AND THE FORGING OF THE NEW IRAQ |
600 | 'a high proportion' | ||||
| IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 19 | ||||||
| News Source - Author - Title |
Date killed? | Total | Civilian / Fighter | Date range? | Total | Civilian / Fighter |
| NYT - JOHN F. BURNS and CHRISTINE HAUSER - BREMER IS INCREASING PRESSURE FOR A QUICK END TO IRAQI UPRISINGS |
about 1,000 (countrywide, 'including insurgents and civilians') | |||||
CO |
700+ | 'at least half of them civilians' | ||||
| GUA - Rory McCarthy - CHILDREN HIT BY 'RANDOM SHOOTING' |
14 (in Baghdad hospital, including baby in womb, from shrapnel) |
'most of them civilians' | 5th-19th | 600 'or more' | 'dozens of civlians' | |
AP |
9th | 2 (parents of 9-yr-old Gofran Mohammed) + 1 (her younger brother) + 1 (her sister Amal, 5) + 1 (sister Saja, 11) = 5 | 5/0 | |||
| IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 20 | ||||||
| News Source - Author - Title |
Date killed? | Total | Civilian / Fighter | Date range? | Total | Civilian / Fighter |
AP |
1 (niece of Haji Abbas | 1/0 |
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| NS - Dahr Jamail - BAGHDAD DOCTORS REPORT USE OF CLUSTER BOMBS IN FALLUJA; US HARRASSMENT OF PATIENTS |
pre-19th | 1 (wounded prevented medical treatment) + 'women and children' seen killed |
1/0 | |||
| AFP - 1945 hrs Time Is Gmt + 8 Hours - IRAQI MEDIATOR OPTIMISTIC ABOUT FALLUJAH DEAL |
5th-19th? | 600+ | 'half of them women, children and elderly people' | |||
| JW - Jo Wilding - APRIL 17TH - FALLUJA |
17th and pre-17th | 1 (injured man whose throat was slit) + 1 (pregnant woman, survived by her baby) + 3 (brother, nephew and niece of Wilding's kidnapper) |
5th-9th (children 5th-7th) | 5-600 in Iraqi-held areas (86 children in first 3 days) [1200 'casualties'] | 86 children included | |
| AFP - Ned Parker - IRAQI DOCTORS WATCH HELPLESSLY AFTER DAYS OF WAR IN FALLUJAH |
pre-19th | 1 (3-yr-old boy) + 1 (old man) +1 (bruised man with rope burns) =3 | 3/0 | |||
NYT |
19th | 6 ('insurgents') | 0/6 | |||
| IWPR - Wisam al-Jaff - FALLUJANS BREAK THE SIEGE |
pre-19th | 1 (Dr. Akram) | 1/0 | |||
| IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 21 | ||||||
| News Source - Author - Title |
Date killed? | Total | Civilian / Fighter | Date range? | Total | Civilian / Fighter |
| Xin - DISPLACED FALLUJAH RESIDENTS NOWHERE TO RETURN |
21st; before 21st | 17 ('north of Fallujah') + 2 ('children of 'Sheikh Kamal Shakir Al Nazal') = 19 |
'two... children' |
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REU |
21st (AM) | 6 (early Wednesday) |
6/0 | 5th-20th? | 600+ [2000 wounded] |
'many of them women and children' |
| Aljaz - 13:04 Makka Time, 10:04 GMT - US DESTROYING FALLUJA HOMES |
20th | 8 (shot by Marines) | 5th-20th? | 600 | ||
| IO - Dr. Mohammed Hassan Al-Meshelany, Iraqi Physician - An Eyewitness Account: An Iraqi Physician in Fallujah |
(all figures are bare mins, plural 'children'=2) |
12/0 | 5th-pre-21st | 800+ | ||
| SFBG - THE KILL ZONE |
10th or earlier | 1 | 1/0 | |||
| AP - 9:46 PM (UK) - JASON KEYSER and LOURDES NAVARRO - MARINES KILL 20 INSURGENTS IN FALLUJAH |
21st | 20 'insurgents' | 0/20 | 5th-20th? | 600+ | 'mostly civilians' |
| COX - LARRY KAPLOW - IRAQI DEATHS TOP 556 IN TWO WEEKS OF FIGHTING |
pre-21st | 5 (parents and three siblings of 10-yr-old survivor, Haider al-Enezi) | 5/0 | 5th-19th? | 264 (+ estimated 15% unnaccounted for=304) | '28 children and 24 women' |
| IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 22 | ||||||
| News Source - Author - Title |
Date killed? | Total | Civilian / Fighter | Date range? | Total | Civilian / Fighter |
| NYT - ERIC SCHMITT - U.S. GENERAL AT FALLUJA WARNS A FULL ATTACK COULD COME SOON |
9th-22nd? | 14 days x '5 to 20 insurgents' = 70 to 280 | 0/70-280 | |||
| AP - 2:46 PM (UK) - SAMIR YACOUB - 576 IRAQI INSURGENTS SAID KILLED IN APRIL |
5th-22nd? | 271 | 51/220 '19% civilians' |
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| Alb - US ARMY: 36 IRAQI FIGHTERS KILLED IN FALLUJAH; SPANISH CIVILIAN SHOT DEAD IN BAGHDAD |
21st | 36 | 0/36 | |||
| BG - Anne Barnard - DEATH TOLL NEAR 500 IN FALLUJAH, BAGHDAD |
5th-19th? | 264+ 26 to 40 = 290 to 304 ('death toll might grow by 10 or 15 percent') |
(min) 35 to 37 12% 'women or children 15 years old or younger' |
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| IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 23 | ||||||
| News Source - Author - Title |
Date killed? | Total | Civilian / Fighter | Date range? | Total | Civilian / Fighter |
| AFP - 2021 hrs Time is GMT + 8 hours - RADICAL IRAQ CLERIC THREATENS SUICIDE ATTACKS |
5th-22nd | 271 [793 wounded] |
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| NS - Dahr Jamail - FALLUJAH RESIDENTS REPORT U.S. FORCES ENGAGED IN COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT |
pre-17th; 22nd-23rd ('overnight') | 2 (neighbours of Abdul Aziz shot by US snipers) + 20 (in 'overnight skirmishes') = 22 | 5th-23rd? | 'at least 700 | ||
| REU - Fadel Badran - RESIDENTS RETURN TO VOLATILE FALLUJAH |
22nd;23rd | 3 (bodies found in rubble, 23rd); 7 (22nd) = 10 | 5th-22nd? | 600+ | ||
| SMH - Evelyn Leopold - GRAFT TALK ON IRAQ OIL PROMPTS UN REVIEW |
5th-22nd? | 264 [791 wounded] |
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| MMN - Oussama El-Mohtar - "FROM MASS GRAVES TO MASSACRES" |
5th-11th | 600 [3000+ wounded] |
'majority' civilian | |||
| BBC - 14:30 GMT 15:30 UK - PICTURE EMERGES OF FALLUJA SIEGE |
pre-23rd | 2 (70 and 50 year-old men shot by US snipers) |
2/0 | 5th-22nd (IHM) | 600 (earlier-quoted local doctors); 750 (Dr Obaidi); 271 (I.H. Minister) |
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| AFP - FALLUJAH SIEGE CIVILIAN DEATH TOLL 271: IRAQI OFFICIAL |
5th-22nd (A.M.) | 271 [793 wounded] (IHM) |
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| LAT - Tony Perry and Patrick J. McDonnell - MARINES WARN OF BATTLE IN FALLOUJA |
22nd | 36 ('insurgents') | 0/36 | 5th-22nd | 219 |
24 children, 28 women |
| IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 24 | ||||||
| News Source - Author - Title |
Date killed? | Total | Civilian / Fighter | Date range? | Total | Civilian / Fighter |
| GUA - Rory McCarthy talks to survivors of the US forces' assault on Falluja - UNEASY TRUCE IN THE CITY OF GHOSTS |
8th (Wisam and cousin); week of 5th-11th; | 1 (Wisam, 16-yr-old son of Menem Latif Hussain) + 1 (his cousin Thair Ahmed, 18) + 1 (18-yr-old girl by sniper) +1 (her brother-in-law trying to help her) +3 (men who had been sitting on a bench) +1 (unborn baby of woman hit by shrapnel) =8 |
8/0 |
5th-8th/9th; and later | 300; later 'up to' 600 | doctors: 'most of the dead were civilians' - but 'US commanders have refused to accept this' |
| AFP - Paul Peachey - AT LEAST 32 KILLED, NEARLY 60 INJURED IN ANOTHER DAY OF VIOLENCE IN IRAQ |
24th | 1 (2-month-old girl) +1 (Mortada, nephew of Hanan Abdel Baki) = 2 | 2/0 | |||
| IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 25 | ||||||
| News Source - Author - Title |
Date killed? | Total | Civilian / Fighter | Date range? | Total | Civilian / Fighter |
| AFP - Marwan Naamani - VOLUNTEERS SET UP TENTS OUTSIDE BAGHDAD TO SHELTER FALLUJAH REFUGEES |
pre-25th | 2 (15 & 20-yr-olds by shell on house) |
2/0 |
5th-22nd? | 271 | |
| REU - 05:51 AM ET - Michael Georgy - U.S. MARINES BIDE TIME IN FALLUJA QUAGMIRE |
5th-15th? | 600 | ||||
| EN - REPORT FROM FALLUJAH -- DESTROYING A TOWN IN ORDER TO SAVE IT |
10th or later | 18 yr-old woman, young boy 'likely terminal' cases | 5th-10th | 5-600, 'current reports say' | estimated 200 women and over 100 children | |
| IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 26 | ||||||
| News Source - Author - Title |
Date killed? | Total | Civilian / Fighter | Date range? | Total | Civilian / Fighter |
| Tel - Toby Harnden - FALLUJAH WILL BE YOUR STALINGRAD, AMERICANS TOLD |
pre-25th | 2 (incl. body dumped by American troops) |
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5th-22nd? | 271 ('official estimate') |
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| AP - IRAQIS: US USING CLUSTER BOMBS IN FALLUJAH |
5th-26th? | 'at least' 800 |
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BBC |
26th | 8 'insurgents' | 0/8 | 5th-26th? | 800+ [1800 wounded] |
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| AFP - EIGHT KILLED IN FALLUJAH CLASHES, BAGHDAD CHEMICAL BLAST CLAIMS TWO |
26th | 8 |
0/8 | |||
| KR - Carol Rosenberg and Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson - FIERCE FIREFIGHT IN FALLUJAH KILLS 1 U.S. MARINE, 8 IRAQI MILITANTS |
26th | 8 ('militants' in gun battle) | 0/8 | |||
| NYT - EDWARD WONG - TRUCE EXTENDED IN FALLUJA SIEGE, AND TALKS GO ON |
24th | 25 (by AC-130 gunship) | 5th-22nd (5th-11th) | 271 (AP reported 600 earlier) |
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| IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 27 | ||||||
| News Source - Author - Title |
Date killed? | Total | Civilian / Fighter | Date range? | Total | Civilian / Fighter |
| NYT - CHRISTINE HAUSER - IN FALLUJA, FINDING A PLACE FOR THE DEAD |
pre-26th | 2 (young brother and sister Amal and Mustafa Alawi, killed in the Hay Julan district) |
2/0 | 5th-26th? | 250 (in one makeshift cemetery) 271 (IHM) 'more than double [the IHM figure]' (local doctors) |
cemetery 'full of women and children' but also some 'signs of fallen fighters' |
| KR - Carol Rosenberg - U.S. MARINES INCREASINGLY TARGETING ENEMY FIGHTERS WITH SNIPERS |
5th-26th? | 90 + 26 ('kills' of two sniper teams - each contains one actual sniper - + one other sniper, of 100 snipers in Falluja) | ||||
| IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 28 | ||||||
| News Source - Author - Title |
Date killed? | Total | Civilian / Fighter | Date range? | Total | Civilian / Fighter |
| AFP - BLAIR SAYS US AIRSTRIKES IN FALLUJAH ARE JUSTIFIED |
27th-28th (overnight) | 2 | 0/2 | 5th-28th? | 280 (IHM) [820 injured] |
54 women and children [102 injured] |
| AFP - AIRSTRIKES IN IRAQI TOWN OF FALLUJAH HIT VEHICLE, BUILDING: MILITARY |
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| REU - Fadel Badran - BUSH WARNS FALLUJA REBELS |
5th-28th? | 'some' 600 | ||||
NYT (See also 27 April sources, |
pre-27th | 1 | ||||
| NYT - JOHN KIFNER and CHRISTINE HAUSER - FIGHTING RESUMES IN FALLUJA; RETURN OF FAMILIES IS HALTED |
28th | 20 | ||||
| AFP - US POUNDS IRAQI INSURGENTS AS UN ENVOY LAYS OUT POLITICAL BLUEPRINT |
5th-28th? | 280 (IHM - but 'Other estimates... much higher') [820 injured] |
54 women and children [102 injured] | |||
| IANS - UN ENVOY WARNS US AGAINST FURTHER BLOODSHED IN IRAQ |
5th-28th? | 'reportedly' 800+ |
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| IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 29 | ||||||
| News Source - Author - Title |
Date killed? | Total | Civilian / Fighter | Date range? | Total | Civilian / Fighter |
| IRIN - Beth Potter - IRAQ: AID AGENCIES CONTINUE TO SUPPLY FALLUJAH AND NAJAF |
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5th-26th? ('three weeks') | 'up to' 700 | ||
| AP - PRESSURE GROWS FOR SOLUTIONS IN FALLUJAH |
29th | 7 (assuming separate 'incidents', as details very different) | 7/0 | |||
| PG - Lee Gordon - ON THE FRONT LINE |
? | 1 (grandfather of Ali) + 5 (Ali's mother, and assuming 2 sisters, 2 brothers 'believed dead') + 25 ('up to 25' of Walid Mohammed Dahi Jenabi's family and neighbours - IBC min family unit is 3) + 1 (volunteer nurse) = 10 (min) 32 (max) | 10 (min) to 32 (max)/0 | |||
| Balt. Sun - Tom Bowman - IN FALLUJAH, A NIGHTMARE SCENARIO OF URBAN WAR |
5th-11th? (based on AP) | 600 ('though ... health minister in the U.S.-appointed government... said the death toll was less than half that') |
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| AP - JASON KEYSER - U.S. TO PULL BACK FROM FALLUJAH AS SADDAM-ERA GENERAL TAKES CHARGE OF SECURITY |
29th | 7 (assuming 'separate incidents', as details very different) | 7/0 | |||
| REU - NINE U.S. SOLDIERS KILLED IN IRAQ |
29th? | 'up to' 4 | 4/0 | 5th-26th? | 600 | |
| LAT - John Hendren and Tony Perry - BATTLE FOR FALLOUJA SEEN AS INEVITABLE |
5th-28th? | 1500-2000 ('by U.S. military estimates') |
'fighters' | |||
| IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 30 | ||||||
| News Source - Author - Title |
Date killed? | Total | Civilian / Fighter | Date range? | Total | Civilian / Fighter |
| AP - DEAL OVER FALLUJAH REMAINS UNCERTAIN |
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5th-29th? | 'more than' 600 - 'but figures disputed by IHM' | ||
| Aljaz - 11:04 Makka Time, 8:04 GMT - FLEEING CIVILIANS KILLED AS CRISIS DEEPENS |
5th-29th? | 600 | ||||
| IND - Baseem Mroue, AP - US MARINES BEING FALLUJAH PULLOUT |
5th-29th? | 'more than' 600 - 'but figures disputed by IHM' | ||||
| AP - BASSEM MROUE - U.S. HANDS OVER SOME POSITIONS IN IRAQ |
5th-30th? | 731 | 'many of them civilians' | |||
| AP - Lee Keath - AROUND 1,361 IRAQIS KILLED IN APRIL'S VIOLENCE, 10 TIMES THE U.S. DEATH TOLL |
in week to 30th? | 2 (woman and daughter) + 6 (other bodies recovered) + 2 (relatives of Dr. Ahmed Ghanim al-Ali) = 10 |
2 (min) to 10 (max) civilian | 5th-30th; 5th-22nd; 5th-11th |
731 |
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| REU - Michael Georgy - CUNNING ENEMY HITS U.S. MORALE IN IRAQ |
'recent' pre-30th | 1 | ||||
| GUA - Luke Harding - 'IT'S HELL...EVERYTHING WILL BE DESTROYED' |
28th and/or 29th | 2 (women shot by snipers in streets of Jumhuriya) + 2 (Kalif Ali, 22 and Issam Shaker, 19, shot while attempting to leave) =4 |
4/0 | |||
| IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - May 01 | ||||||
| News Source - Author - Title |
Date killed? | Total | Civilian / Fighter | Date range? | Total | Civilian / Fighter |
| Aljaz - 10:01 Makka Time, 7:01 GMT - FAMILIES RETURN TO DEVASTATED FALLUJA |
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5th-30th? | 600+ | ||
| GM - ESTANISLAO OZIEWICZ - BLOODY APRIL IN IRAQ MAY HAUNT U.S. PSYCHE |
5th-30th? | 750 | 'residents of Fallujah' | |||
| IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - May 02 | ||||||
| News Source - Author - Title |
Date killed? | Total | Civilian / Fighter | Date range? | Total | Civilian / Fighter |
| OBS - 10:01 Makka Time, 7:01 GMT - 'WE'VE HAD A LOT OF EXPERIENCE OF US WEAPONS' |
pre-30th | 2 |
1 (min) 2 (max) civilian |
5th-1st? | 219 (one clinic only) |
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| SH - Trevor Royle - AMERICAN CLIMBDOWN MAY SIGNAL WAY AHEAD AFTER CRUELLEST MONTH |
600+ ('could be a conservative estimate') |
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| Newsday - JAMES RUPERT - THE FALLOUT IN FALLUJAH |
5th-30th? | 760 [2800 injured] |
'mostly civlians' | |||
| Times - Hala Jaber - FOCUS: CITY OF DEATH |
5th-30th? 18th-20th? (baby Asmaa) |
1 (13-yr-old) + 27 (all members of Rabii Saleh Dahi's family) + 1 (one-yr-old Asmaa Almwan - prevented medical treatment) =29 |
29/0 | |||
| JW - Jo Wilding - MAY 2ND - GOING HOME |
5th-30th? | 1 (Sejad, one-yr-old nephew of Nazar) |
1/0 | 5th-2nd | 'several hundred, at least' | |
SFC |
5th-30th? | 'up to' 800 (presumably not including US soldiers) | ||||
| IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - May 03 | ||||||
| News Source - Author - Title |
Date killed? | Total | Civilian / Fighter | Date range? | Total | Civilian / Fighter |
| REU - Joseph Logan - FALLUJA TURNS OUT TO BURY DEAD AFTER U.S. PULLBACK |
pre-30th? | 1 (daughter of Hamid Eisawy) +20 (bodies recovered on 2nd?) + 7 ('spies') =28 |
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| IPS - Aaron Glantz - VICTORY RISES ABOVE A MASS GRAVE |
early to mid-April? | 2 (middle-aged woman and husband) +1 (clinicl volunteer) +3 (18 and 13-yr-old cousins of Ahmed Saud Muhasin al-Isawi, and a niece)=6 (niece's 8 children also missing) | 6/0 | 5th-30th? | 300 (one football field) | |
| IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - May 04 | ||||||
| News Source - Author - Title |
Date killed? | Total | Civilian / Fighter | Date range? | Total | Civilian / Fighter |
| Star Trib. - Gwynne Dyer - GWYNNE DYER: IT LOOKS AS IF GAME IS UP FOR AMERICANS IN IRAQ |
'better part of a thousand people' | 'TV crews in the city making it clear that a high proportion of the victims were civilians killed by American snipers' | ||||
| Hi Pak - AFZAAL MAHMOOD - WORSENING CHAOS IN IRAQ |
40+ (est.) ( 'scores of patients' died due to 'makeshift arrangements' after hospital was cut off from city) |
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| BBC - Caroline Hawley - AFTER THE FIGHT, FURY IN FALLUJA |
5th-30th? | 36 (neighbours of Ali Hassan: families of three brothers) +2 (children in unmarked graves) =38 |
38/0 | |||
| SFC - Colin Freeman - VISITING A CHANGED FALLUJAH |
'few days' prior to 4th May; 11th April | 1 (Ghazi al Turkiye, alleged spy) + 1 (16-year-old Nazar Allawi Mahedi) | 2/0 | |||
| IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - May 05 | ||||||
| News Source - Author - Title |
Date killed? | Total | Civilian / Fighter | Date range? | Total | Civilian / Fighter |
| GUA - BY SHARON'S STANDARDS |
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5th-30th? | (estimates of) 300-750 |
'one UN figure says that 90% of the dead are civilians' | |
| ABC(AU) - Rafael Epstein reports - AM - UN WANTS INQUIRY INTO HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN FALLUJAH |
5th-30th? | 'reports of' 750 dead | '...and 90 per cent of them are non-combatants' | |||
GL |
post-5th | 12 (in neighbouring village of Naamiya) | 12 (max) civilians | |||
| BBC - Caroline Hawley - EYEWITNESS: FALLUJA'S GRIEF AND DEFIANCE |
5th-30th? | 1 (taxi driver ferrying wounded) +36 ('members of one extended family') +2 (baby girls) =39 |
36/0 | |||
| IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - May 06 | ||||||
| News Source - Author - Title |
Date killed? | Total | Civilian / Fighter | Date range? | Total | Civilian / Fighter |
| IRIN - IRAQ: CIVILIANS CAUGHT IN FALLUJAH CROSSFIRE TELL THEIR STORY |
24th | 13 (relatives of Muhaye Ahmed, in village on outskirts of Falluja) |
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'last three weeks' | 'up to' 700 | |
| IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - May 07 | ||||||
| News Source - Author - Title |
Date killed? | Total | Civilian / Fighter | Date range? | Total | Civilian / Fighter |
| NS - "WE WILL FIGHT THEM AGAIN!" |
pre-7th May | 3 (mother and two daughters) +1 (old man wearing jacket) +1 (man in track suit) +3 (women in car fleeing city) +1 (woman hanging clothes on rooftop) |
7 (min) 8 (max) civilians |
5th April-May 7th? | 'nearly 500 graves' (in one cemetery) | |
| IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - May 08 | ||||||
| News Source - Author - Title |
Date killed? | Total | Civilian / Fighter | Date range? | Total | Civilian / Fighter |
| LAT - Alissa J. Rubin - FALLOUJA'S FIGHTERS TRADE WEAPONS, NOT ALLEGIANCES |
5th-30th | 1 (father of 28-yr-old Yassir Harhoush) |
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| IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - May 09 | ||||||
| News Source - Author - Title |
Date killed? | Total | Civilian / Fighter | Date range? | Total | Civilian / Fighter |
| CT - DEBORAH HORAN - FALLOUJA'S FIGHTERS TRADE WEAPONS, NOT ALLEGIANCES |
8th | 1 (father of 28-yr-old Yassir Harhoush) |
1/0 |
5th-7th? | 'About' 700; |
'158 women' |
| KR - ROBERT MORAN - WITH U.S. MARINES GONE, QUIET RETURNS TO BATTLE-SCARRED FALLUJAH |
5th April-9th May? | 800+ (update) [3000+ wounded] |
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| IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - May 11 | ||||||
| News Source - Author - Title |
Date killed? | Total | Civilian / Fighter | Date range? | Total | Civilian / Fighter |
| NS - Dahr Jamail - ACCOUNTS OF ATROCITIES EMERGE FROM THE RUBBLE OF FALLUJAH |
11th | 1 (Jabul Nezzar Raad, brother of Jabur Khani Raad) +1 (Hussein Mohammad Jergi, mentally disabled man, mutilated then shot) =2 |
2/0 | |||
| IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - May 14 | ||||||
| News Source - Author - Title |
Date killed? | Total | Civilian / Fighter | Date range? | Total | Civilian / Fighter |
| IPS - Dahr Jamail - SUNNIS AND SHIAS UNITING AGAINST U.S. |
5th-30th? | 800+ |
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| IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - May 21 | ||||||
| News Source - Author - Title |
Date killed? | Total | Civilian / Fighter | Date range? | Total | Civilian / Fighter |
| NS - Dahr Jamail - FALLUJAH DOCTORS REPORT U.S. FORCES OBSTRUCTED MEDICAL CARE IN APRIL |
5th-30th? | 1 (man attempting to rescue wounded ambulance driver) +1 (another ambulance driver) +1 (patient in ambulance that was sniped) =3 |
3/0 | |||
| IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - June 03 | ||||||
| News Source - Author - Title |
Date killed? | Total | Civilian / Fighter | Date range? | Total | Civilian / Fighter |
| Tel - Colin Freeman - 'WE'RE PAYING THE MUJAHIDEEN NOT TO SHOOT AT US' |
April- May? (or typo? - clashes began approx. 'six weeks' ago - also see SFC 04 May by same author) |
800+ |
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| IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - June 25 | ||||||
| News Source - Author - Title |
Date killed? | Total | Civilian / Fighter | Date range? | Total | Civilian / Fighter |
| GUA - Ghaith Abdul-Ahad - 'THIS IS THE ONLY FUN THE KIDS GET - SHOOTING AT THE US SITTING DUCKS' |
5th-30th?l | 800+ |
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| IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - July 19 | ||||||
| News Source - Author - Title |
Date killed? | Total | Civilian / Fighter | Date range? | Total | Civilian / Fighter |
| Aljaz - Ahmed Janabi - FALLUJANS: USE OIL CASH TO REBUILD HOMES |
late March-April | 800+ |
'mostly civilians' | |||